Flutterby™! : Memory errors are more common than you think 2026-03-05 21:05:37.545368+01

Memory errors are more common than you think

2026-03-05 21:05:37.545368+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Thread from Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto@mas.to about using Firefox crash reports to try to quantify RAM failures, and coming to the conclusion that:

In other words up to 10% of all the crashes Firefox users see are not software bugs, they're caused by hardware defects! If I subtract crashes that are caused by resource exhaustion (such as out-of-memory crashes) this number goes up to around 15%. This is a bit skewed because users with flaky hardware will crash more often than users with functioning machines, but even then this dwarfs all the previous estimates I saw regarding this problem.

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